India September 14, 2016: TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd.
(TAL), A TATA Enterprise, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors,
recently inaugurated an all new state-of-the-art Generic Assembly Shop
at their manufacturing facility located in MIHAN SEZ, Nagpur.

The
facility was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra,
Shri. Devendra Fadnavis and the Union Minister for Road Transport,
Highways & Shipping, Shri. Nitin Gadkari, in the presence of the
Hon’ble Energy, New and Renewable Energy, GoM & Guardian Minister of
Nagpur – Mr. Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Mayor of Nagpur – Mr. Pravin
Datke and other political, government & industry dignitaries, along
with the Managing Director & CEO of Tata Motors, Mr. Guenter
Butschek and the TAL Board of Directors.

RUAG
Aero-structures, a global tier-1 to Airbus, awarded a multi-year $150 M
contract to TAL in 2014 for supply of precision machined and sheet metal
parts for the Airbus A320 family of aircrafts. The new work scope
allows RUAG to strengthen and optimize its long-term objectives of
sustainable profitability with a low-cost and high-complexity
combi-strategy, which will give its customers not only a global supply
chain but also best cost.

With a manufacturing area of 96,000
sq.ft. and an investment of over Rs. 100 cr., the Generic facility is a
state-of-the-art aerospace manufacturing shop, with equipment to support
technologies such as fluid cell forming, extrusion stretch wrapping,
solution annealing and long-bed high speed machining of intricate parts
along with facilities for assembly. The facility has been built to
primarily execute the supply emanating from the RUAG – TAL contract
elucidated above and is equipped to manufacture, assemble & supply
over 50,000 precision parts and assemblies every month.

Mr.
Alfons Kaspar, Vice President Supply Chain and Logistics – RUAG
Aero-structures, said, “We treat the inauguration of this new facility
as the first step in our realization of making TAL a part of our
strategic supply base. Our challenge is to help TAL ramp-up quickly and
stabilize production, so that we can look beyond parts and
sub-assemblies into larger and complex assemblies. We are also looking
at exploiting the potential and capabilities that TAL has built up in
composites, which will complement our offerings and give us an
unbeatable value proposition across metallic and composite aero
structures”.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Rajesh Khatri, ED
& CEO, TAL, said, “Thanks to our customers, especially RUAG, we have
set up this new state-of-the-art Generic facility to build some of the
most demanding structures of an aircraft with the help of globally
benchmarked manufacturing technology. This facility will help us in
delivering global quality and cost effective aerospace components &
assemblies. We aspire to maintain our first mover advantage and lead the
growth in the Indian civil aerospace industry”.

TAL has plans
to invest in order to achieve desired growth. In fact, in the true
Swadeshi spirit, it is planning to set up a lab-scale facility to
further develop competencies in new technologies of composite
manufacturing and aerospace assembly. Additional investments are being
made at the facility to strengthen and grow machining, forming, welding
and other capabilities, to make the facility a one stop solution for
aero-structure and aero-engine precision components and assemblies.

TAL’s
Aerospace facility is unique in the Indian private sector offering one
stop solution for composites, hard and soft aerospace grade metallic
materials, special processes and assemblies under one roof. The
company’s aerospace unit has a diversified workforce of 550 employees,
and is still growing at an accelerated pace

TAL, at its Pune
location, has identified Robotics and Automation as one of its key
growth drivers. It has recently launched its indigenously developed
articulated 2, 5 & 10kg pay load Robots. The BRABO is
“robolutionising” automation in the MSME in India.

About TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd.: TAL
Manufacturing Solutions Limited (TAL), a TATA Enterprise, is a 100%
subsidiary of TATA Motors and one of the leading companies in India,
successfully delivering manufacturing solutions for over 40 years to a
wide range of customers, most recently in the aerospace sector.

TAL’s
manufacturing plants are at two locations in India – Pune and Nagpur,
each focusing on specific skills and offerings, driven by over 750
strong talented & highly motivated workforce.

The Nagpur
facility houses the Aerospace Business Unit, and is a greenfield factory
which broke ground in 2007 in MIHAN SEZ. While it is a prime supplier
of the Advanced Composite Floor Beams for the 787-9 Dreamliner to
Boeing, TAL has expanded its facilities to cater to demands of its other
prime customers – RUAG Aerospace Structures GmbH, Rolls-Royce &
Pratt & Whitney. With the completion of this expansion, TAL is
uniquely positioned in the Indian private sector in offering –
Composites, Machining, Sheet Metal forming, Welding, Special Processes
& Assembly, all under one roof.

Image 1 - TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. (TAL), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Tata Motors, celebrated the inauguration of an all new
state-of-the-art Generic Assembly Shop at their manufacturing facility
located in MIHAN SEZ, Nagpur. The facility has been built to primarily
execute order from the RUAG – TAL contract, and is equipped to
manufacture, assemble & supply over 50,000 precision parts and
assemblies every month

The mechatronics capabilities
developed over the years in the Robotics and Industrials Business Units
at Pune, has led TAL to indigenously design, develop and manufacture the
country’s first best-value TAL BRABO! Robot and integration /
application solutions for replacing humans in 3D - Dull, Dirty and
Dangerous operations across the manufacturing industry, especially the
MSME segment. Other offerings from Pune include Jigs and Fixtures
including GHE and GSE, Material Handling and Fluid Power Systems.About RUAG Aerostructures:

RUAG
Aerostructures, a global tier-1 supplier with a service portfolio for
the design and production of aircraft fuselage sections, wing
components, movables, modules and systems, with a total of 1100
employees at three sites in Emmen (Switzerland), Oberpfaffenhofen
(Germany) and Eger (Hungary), has a broad product portfolio for civil
and military customers and OEMs.